Wilhelm Rediess

Wilhelm Rediess (10 October 1900-8 May 1945) was the SS commander in Norway (as Obergruppenfuehrer) from 22 June 1940 to 8 May 1945.

Biography
Wilhelm Rediess was born in 1900 in Heinsberg, Prussia, and he enlisted in the Imperial German Army in June of 1918, seeing action in the last months of World War I. In May 1925, he joined the Nazi Party's SA wing, and he transferred to the SS in 1930. In 1935, he became a Lieutenant-General (Obergruppenfuehrer) of the SS, and he was appointed to lead all SS forces in Norway in 1940. When he discovered Nazi Germany's plans to surrender Norway to the Allied Powers on 8 May 1945, he shot himself; the Nazi governor Josef Terboven blew himself up.